Re: -dlopen self and optimizing away symbols

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Albert,

On 16 Aug 2006, at 23:39, Albert Chin wrote:
>   cc -z +O2 +Onofltacc +Olit=all +Oentrysched +DD64 +Odataprefetch \
>   +Onolimit +We901 -Wl,+b \
>   -Wl,/opt/TWWfsw/openldap2325lib/hpux64:/opt/TWWfsw/libdb42/lib/ 
> hpux64:/opt/TWWfsw/libsasl21/lib/hpux64:/opt/TWWfsw/libopenssl097/ 
> lib/hpux64 \
>   .libs/slapdS.o -o .libs/slapd main.o globals.o bconfig.o config.o \
>   daemon.o ...
>
> Unfortunately, the HP-UX 11.23/IA compiler, when generating
> .libs/slapd, will optimize _away_ symbols that are not used by any of
> the object files being linked

Is this because of the optimisation flags?  Or does HP cc strip  
unused symbols
by default (which would constitute a bug)?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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